I honestly didn't realise that this was meant to be "not a novel " until I had finished it. It is a very strange mash of genres, part fic...

Still Life by Val Mc Dermid I loved this book, although it took me a little while to get into it. But once hooked, it really did zip alon...

Where the Edge is by Grainne Murphy The book, a debut novel, tells the story of a terrible accident in a rural village in Ireland, in whi...

Fire and The Fury Inside the Trump White House Michael Wolff Not particularly recent but timely all the same. Following on from Mary Trum...

Mary Trump’s account is an absolutely gripping read, and throws a bright light on the dysfunctional family into which she was born. In so...

Such a sad sad story. I have read some reviews which advised only to read this if you are mentally in a good place and I would agree. It ...

Guarding Hitler is a incredibly dense and detailed account of the last years and days of Hitler.and in particular the security arrangemen...

This is the latest in the long line of psychological thrillers written by the husband and wife team Nicci Gerard and Sean French and look...

I can’t remember now how I came across the work of Kevin Barry, the Irish writer, but I am so glad that I did. Barry’s debut collection, ...

Not the Deaths Imagined is the gripping story of Dr Beth Semple, a Glasgow GP. It's based, not in the mean streets of the city, but rathe...

I found this a fascinating read, that provided a brutally honest expose of the vicissitudes of a writer's life. Harry ( it seems churlish...

by Beth Underwood Published by Penguin This is the story of the self styled and self appointed Witchfinder General, Matthew Hopkins as to...

I love Robert Harris, not least because of his piercing Twitter observations on the ineptitude of the current government, despite looking...